The Pandemic of Argumentation

by Steve Oswald

Book Overview

This open access book addresses communicative aspects of the current COVID-19 pandemic as well as the epidemic of misinformation from the perspective of argumentation theory. Argumentation theory is uniquely placed to understand and account for the challenges of public reason as expressed through argumentative discourse. The book thus focuses on the extent to which the forms, norms and functions of public argumentation have changed in the face...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030910164
• ISBN13: 9783030910167
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 371 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"